UNRELEASED SHORT MOVIES

2022-05-29T15:30:00Z

Luminor Hôtel de Ville, Rue du Temple, Paris, France

➢ Trumpets in the Sky by Rakan Mayasi Palestine, Lebanon, France, Belgium - 2021 Boushra, one of the Syrian potato-picking girls in Lebanon, returns from a long day of work in the field only to learn that today her childhood will come to an end. ➢ The Return of Osiris by Essa Grayeb Egypt - 2019 - 14 min - Experimental On June 9, 1967, the Egyptian president at the time, Gamal Abdel Nasser, appeared on television and radio to inform the Egyptian citizens of their country's defeat in the war. During the speech, he also announced his resignation. For many, Nasser's speech was the first hint of the full scope of the loss and the disillusionment with the pan-Arab vision he had led. ➢ Made in Palestine by Mariam Dwedar USA | 2019 | 8 min | Short film Documentary Hirbawi Textiles is the last-remaining factory in Palestine that produces the iconic Palestinian scarf known as the Kuffiyeh. ➢ Mariam by Reem Jubran USA - 2021 - 11 min - Fiction Mariam is an ode to Zaid, a closeted young Arab-American teen who deals with a one-dimensional angry father, takes care for his grandfather suffering from Alzheimer’s, but also struggles with understanding his identity, duty to his family, fear of rejection and the impossibility of his acceptance to his family and culture. ➢ Tallahassee by Darine Hotait United States - 2021 - 22 min - Fiction On the day of her release from a psychiatric facility, Mira, an Arab American woman, attends her grandmother’s 90th birthday — only to discover that her sister Lara has lied to the family that she was on a trip to Florida.